Last week, Samsung held a small press event in New York City to brief members of the media on its two latest smartphones, the Galaxy S 6 and Galaxy S 6 edge, ahead of today's official device launch at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Japanese mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo has developed an app that can wirelessly send authentication credentials to devices that are not connected to the Internet, allowing more hardware to get online or query the cloud.

While we count down the days until the Apple Watch is (presumably) revealed at Apple's "Spring forward" event March 9, more details about the much-anticipated wearable continue to dribble out. For instance, the smartwatch was designed to be able to replace your car keys--though it's unlikely that functionality will be turned on at launch.

Everybody's favorite open source video player just got even better. The VideoLAN Organization is releasing the stable version of VLC 2.2.0 on Friday, packed with a few goodies ahead of the VLC 3.0.0 release scheduled for later this year.

Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday, March 8. The following day, Apple is inviting us to "spring forward" at a "special event" in San Francisco. Hmm...could Apple be showing off a device that has something to do with setting the clock? Macworld will be in the audience to bring you the details at 10 a.m. Pacific.

Plex doesn't exactly hide the fact that it's a killer app for pirated video. Just look at the marketing materials for the media server software, and you'll see how easy it is to stream your collection of movies and TV shows to all your devices. The open secret is that you probably can't acquire that kind of video collection without downloading from BitTorrent or ripping your DVDs or Blu-ray discs (circumventing copy protection is either against the law or fair use of discs you purchased, depending on your perspective).

As Valve continues to fiddle with Steam OS, the key cog in the Steam Machine initiative it announced way at CES back in 2014, system builders have been taking matters into their own hands. We've seen various small form-factor gaming PCs that boot directly into Steam's Big Picture mode, a 10-foot user interface designed for big-screen TVs. Many of the options have just been smaller versions of big desktops, while others look more like Xbox One or PlayStation 4 video-game consoles.

Since Microsoft shipped the Microsoft Band last fall, the smartband has faded from public attention. Microsoft's first major update to the Band and its complementary Microsoft Health app adds a boatload of new features, however.

Microsoft's Bing has correctly predicted the Super Bowl and World Cup winners; more recently Microsoft turned its attention to Sunday's Academy Awards. Bing and Microsoft Research teamed up to create a constantly updated Oscar predictions list leading up to last night's big awards show, and the duo proved pretty darn prescient.

Light is light, right? Not exactly. The light that comes from the overhead fluorescents at your office is nothing like the light that pours from your favorite chandelier at home or that of the bedside lamp that lets you read your favorite novel to help you fall asleep.